Thursday, 13 November 2008

This is one of those desserts I used to have for sunday coffee, when I first cvame to belgium.My FIL can never understand, back at home in Kerala we used to have rice for lunch and dinner and then when i mentioned that we also have breakfast items with rice , well as you all can imagine the looks of shock in his face.

My MIL makes rice once a week and every time when she makes rice, he complains oh it is rice for lunch and to that she replies to him, well you always complain about not liking rice, but there is nothing left in your plate when the lunch is finished. And more over you even take second helpings.Ofcourse he replies to her ofcourse i take second helping otherwise it will go to waist :-)

So he uesd to buy these rice dessert from the bakers, saying i would love them as i had always rice back at home.Have to admit i love this dessert and have been looking for a good recipe and it is only lately i found out this wonderful recipe.Ofcourse as it is a sweet dessert, my FIL loves it, he don't mind that it is made from rice :-)

I would say it is a bit like our Kheer/payasom with a bit of difference.

Wash the rice and strain them.Boil the milk with the split vanilla beans .Add the rice, salt and butter. Bring it back to boil, remove the vanilla beans, scrape out the seed and put it back into the mixture.Cook it for almost 35 minutes or till the rice is cooked stirring it once a while .When the rice is cooked add the sugart and stir till it is mixed.Take the pan from the fire , pour the rice mixture into a glass bowl .You can cool the rice a bit adding water to a basin and keeping the glass bowl in it.Add the cream which is lightly thickened.Mix well.

Pour them to individual glasses and keep in the fridge for few hours.

Serve the rice condé with apricot jam. Normally it is served with this jam, but i think you can use any kind of jam according to your liking.Heat he jam in the MW so it is easy to spoon on to the top of the riceSending this to Sirvalli's Rice mela and Srilekha's November event Sweets

Pam for breakfast, well i would love them too except there is never seems to be any left overs ;-)

Raaji they are reaally small glasses so the portions are very little in each glasses and i took them to my inlaws place for cofee so we all could have it there.

Cham actually i think it is originally a french dessert, but then here in Belgium it is also famous, yeah you are correct here to they serve them with fruits too.

Sra it is indeed, apricot jam. You have dosa, puttu etc for breakfast, well when itell my FIL that the breakfast is made from rice as main ingridient but in dosa or puttu or appoms and then he is like you South indians do love your rice :-)

I love this dessert. It sounds like a super duper fancy rice pudding, and I LOVE rice pudding. Actually I just love rice. If I had nothing else to eat by rice, I'd be very satisfied. Call me crazy, but it's true.

I have never heard of this till now. Just looking at the picture, its hard to believe that its rice. looks very exotic.I'm not sure how my family that is used to traditional payasam would take payasam with apricot jam. :)

This is one yummy treat Happy..A must try I believe...I like kheer...so this sure would love this variation too...Jsut have to grab some vanilla ice cream adn aprioct jam next my I do my groceries...Thanks for sharing.